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[add comment] [edit] [4 February 2013]http://www.awiatsea.com/Officers/Officers%20A.html ATTWOOD [ATWOOD], SHEFFIELD RI Midshipman, Continental Navy Sheffield Attwood entered aboard the Continental Navy Ship Columbus (HOYSTEED HACKER) as a Midshipman on 10 March 1777. Columbus was at Providence, anchored in the Providence River at the time. [NDAR, “Shipping Articles for the Continental Navy Ship Columbus,” 8, 118-120]--henk 06:10, 4 February 2013 (EST) [add comment] [edit] [4 February 2013]Lydia' De Wolf, m. (i) April 18, 1778, Samuel Lee. 72 Mark Antony, ) Drowned on the New England 73 Samuel, [coast, 1802 (see note under 58). m. (2) June 9, 1796, Capt. Sheffield Attwood, d. Oct. 31, 1829, aged 74, son of Thomas and Ruth Attwood.--henk 06:12, 4 February 2013 (EST) [add comment] [edit] [4 February 2013]http://dunhamwilcox.net/ri/rhode_island_vr21a.htm ATWOOD Nancy Atwood, of Sheffield, 17 y., Sept. 29, 1808. Sheffield Atwood, 28 y., June 16, 1810. Capt. Sheffield Atwood, 74 y., Oct. 31, 1829.--henk 06:14, 4 February 2013 (EST) [add comment] [edit] [7 February 2013]Newport Mercury (Newport, RI), Jan. 5, 1796, p. 3: " On Saturday last made her Exit from the Theatre of Life, Mrs. ANN ATTWOOD, Consort of Mr. Sheffield Atwood, Merchant, at this Town, in the 42nd Year of her Age. ---She has left an dissconsolate Partner, and a numerous Train of young Dependents, to lament her Loss. ---Endowed with a Heart independent, and nobly sincere ; with Feelings generous and sublime, her Character through Life has been marked by a becoming Peculiarity, the proper Object of a virtuous Approbation. " Lean not on Earth, 'twill pierce thee to the Hear." -- While the sympathetic fear is urged to show, and the heaving Bosom bucks with the swelling Anguish of excruiating Sorrow ; ---while Affection, evinced of its imbecility, sublimates to Affliction, and Friendship matures to ecstatic Anxiety ; ---while robbed of oru Joys, while bereft of our true Hopes, we are left desperate and disconsolate,
[add comment] [edit] Sons [8 February 2013]Tuesday, September 9, 1800 Paper: Newport Mercury (Newport, RI) Issue: 2004 Page: 3 [Died] "in this town, messrs. John and James Attwood, sons of Mr. Sheffield Attwood"--Jennifer (JBS66) 19:02, 8 February 2013 (EST) |